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So both of our cats are indoor cats, but we'll let them out periodically for unsupervised runs around the backyard. Well, sometimes supervised.
Youngest cat has been trying to escape the backyard repeatedly. Here's a short summary of his escape methods (or attempted ones):
-Jumped the fence into our neighbour's yard on several occasions. First few times, the neighbour was home and quite happily handed the cat back to us. After that, neighbour wasn't home and my sister and I had to break into his backyard to get the cat back over the fence.
dad then proceeded to rig up some netting that slopes inwards, so he can't jump it. He tried a couple of times, then gave up.
-Managed to get onto the roof of the house. Basically, my dad drives a VW Transporter for work (carpenter). Said car has a very high roof. Youngest Cat figured out that if he could jump on top of the car roof, wander along the top, then jump onto the pergola, he could waltz over onto the roof. He would then meow at the top of his lungs for someone to come and get him down.
After the last time he did that (which took me almost an hour to get him OFF the roof), dad found our old portable gazebo and rigged it up so that he could drive his car under it and the cat couldn't get onto the roof from there. When he finished rigging it up, we let the cat out and watched him jump up there. Once he figured out that he couldn't squeeze through the gap, he gave dad a dirty look
-Tried to jump over the front gate where the blue tongue lizard is. Now I'm waiting for dad to rig THAT one up too.
Oh and then there was the time he tried to climb up the tree in the backyard and it took me fifteen minutes to coax him down.
Youngest cat has been trying to escape the backyard repeatedly. Here's a short summary of his escape methods (or attempted ones):
-Jumped the fence into our neighbour's yard on several occasions. First few times, the neighbour was home and quite happily handed the cat back to us. After that, neighbour wasn't home and my sister and I had to break into his backyard to get the cat back over the fence.
dad then proceeded to rig up some netting that slopes inwards, so he can't jump it. He tried a couple of times, then gave up.
-Managed to get onto the roof of the house. Basically, my dad drives a VW Transporter for work (carpenter). Said car has a very high roof. Youngest Cat figured out that if he could jump on top of the car roof, wander along the top, then jump onto the pergola, he could waltz over onto the roof. He would then meow at the top of his lungs for someone to come and get him down.
After the last time he did that (which took me almost an hour to get him OFF the roof), dad found our old portable gazebo and rigged it up so that he could drive his car under it and the cat couldn't get onto the roof from there. When he finished rigging it up, we let the cat out and watched him jump up there. Once he figured out that he couldn't squeeze through the gap, he gave dad a dirty look
-Tried to jump over the front gate where the blue tongue lizard is. Now I'm waiting for dad to rig THAT one up too.
Oh and then there was the time he tried to climb up the tree in the backyard and it took me fifteen minutes to coax him down.
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